Chapter 369: The Foot Basin Chicken Standing on One Leg

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After the accompanying domestic personnel checked out all the listening facilities that might be hidden inside the residence, Lin Youde soon came over with a thick pile of information.

"BOSS, this is what you want. According to the important information that we have collected and tracked over a long period of time on our intelligence network in Japan, it contains the identity information of most of the key personnel of foundations and companies in Japan. As long as it is not the kind of specific person who lives in the secret and is extremely secretive, in addition to information such as position, age, relationship, address of residence, and sphere of influence, there is also the pattern of their activities, the places they frequent, and the people they have additional intimate connections. ā€

Liang Yu nodded, and looked at it a little after receiving it: "Very good, with this, we can find someone to get twice the result with half the effort." ā€

Before he arrived, he had a detailed understanding of the current state of the Japanese economy. If we remove financial, insurance, and energy companies, and only screen out industry-related enterprises, we will find a very interesting phenomenon: half of the profits of Japanese industrial enterprises in the world's top 500 come from the automotive industry.

Clearly, with the rise of China's economy, changes in people's lifestyles, and the development of the rest of the world, many industries that were once the backbone of Japan's economy are beginning to decline. For example, Japan's traditional advantageous industries... Electronics, semiconductors, shipbuilding, steel, etc., which were the keys to Japan's economy in the eighties and nineties to become the world's second largest competitor to the United States, were defeated by the combined efforts of China, South Korea, the United States, and the European Union. In recent years, a large number of related enterprises have been acquired overseas, and even Matsushita Electric Company, the local pride of Japan's publicity, has begun to split a large number of branch businesses because of poor management, and many of its departmental subsidiaries have been swallowed up and acquired by domestic enterprises.

It is clear that Japan's industrial economy is gradually moving from multiple pillars to standing on one leg.

This is also the reason why both the political and business circles in Japan are particularly interested in forming and joining the China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area. The narrow domestic market and high manufacturing costs make it difficult for them to compete in industrial competition with Chinese companies with a large population and user base.

Especially for the recent years, China and South Korea have put aside the China-South Korea free trade area model that they have developed separately, and these people are simply red-eyed. If we look at the fate of the other three tigers, we can see that Hong Kong has begun to decline, Taiwan has gradually become marginalized, and Singapore has gradually lost its status as an important transshipment port in Asia, and the reason why South Korea has been able to rise from the position of the Asian tigers to the real fourth in Asia is that it has taken the express train of domestic economic development, and the bilateral trade volume between the two countries has exceeded more than $230 billion at the peak, reaching one-sixth of the size of the South Korean economy. The favorable economic situation has also allowed them to surpass Japan in the shipbuilding, semiconductor, and electronics industries.

Let's go back to the revenue rankings of Japanese industrial companies.

Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. ranked first with $249.9 billion, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in second place with $127.9 billion, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in third place with $105.9 billion, Hitachi in fourth place with $85.8 billion, Sony in fifth place with $69.2 billion, Panasonic in sixth place with $66.6 billion, Toshiba in seventh place with $47.2 billion, Fujitsu in eighth place with $41.7 billion, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in ninth place with $41.6 billion, and Denso in tenth place with $41.1 billion.

It can be seen that the top three are all automobiles, and the industrial companies with revenues of more than 90 billion US dollars in Japan are all automobile companies.

Not only that, but Denso, which ranks 10th, is also an auto parts company, with a total of 4 of the top 10 auto companies in terms of revenue.

In fact, in addition to these four companies, Panasonic also makes auto parts, and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal also supplies steel for automobiles.

Toyota is a giant, and the revenue of one company ($249.9 billion) is almost equal to the sum of $268.8 billion of Hitachi + Sony + Panasonic + Toshiba in 4th-7th place.

The total operating income of the 90 Japanese industrial enterprises that entered the top 2000 was 1,958.2 billion US dollars, and the total operating income of Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Suzuki, Mazda, Nissan, Isuzu, and Mitsubishi was 588.7 billion US dollars, accounting for 30%, if we count the total revenue of 181.8 billion US dollars of 8 auto parts companies (Denso, Aisin Seiki, JTEKT, Sumitomo Tire, Koito Manufacturing, Toyota Boshoku, Bridgestone, Mitsubishi Electric), accounted for 39.3%.

If the revenue of upstream enterprises such as steel, automotive glass, automotive electronics, and bearings is also included, it accounts for nearly half of the top 90 companies.

That's not to mention how many more Japanese people are being fed based on the huge profits produced by these automotive industries around the world.

You know, as a technology industry with concentrated technology content and complex production chain, the automotive industry can get much more profit margins than other industries. For example, in terms of revenue from Japanese industrial companies, Toyota Motor ranked first with $17.1 billion, Nissan with $4.5 billion, Honda with $3.9 billion, Bridgestone with $2.4 billion, Denso at $2.2 billion, Panasonic at $1.9 billion, Mitsubishi Electric at $1.9 billion, Anstellas at $1.9 billion, Hitachi at $1.8 billion, and Subaru at $1.8 billion.

The top five profits are all related to the automotive industry, while the top ten profits are four automobile companies and three auto parts companies.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the automobile industry, Japan's last remaining pillar of the industrial economy, is crushed, the entire Japanese society will be in a situation from which it will never recover.

Countless people will lose their jobs because the small market in Japan will not be able to support so many industrial workers and technicians, and many more families will lose their source of income.

Government revenues will also be cut in half, a large number of social welfare and public facilities will be paralyzed by the lack of funds, and the poor who can barely survive on ZF handouts will be left to fend for themselves.

Even more serious is the impact on the yen exchange rate, and without the support of the dominant industries that are the pillars, the yen, which is already weak, will inevitably fall sharply. And the result of the extremely barren resource output of the island country and the increase in the price of all raw materials is far more terrible than the "lost twenty years" that made the Japanese talk about the tiger, and it is no less than a real avalanche.

Obviously, relying solely on the output of anime, A惻V, and the film and television entertainment industry cannot support so many Japanese people.

It's just that what Liang Yu didn't expect was that before his group of people could make the trip, the Americans came to the door.